Canadian immigration minister says temporary worker program needs reform

* Canadian immigration minister says temporary worker program needs reform Program criticized for wage suppression and worker abuse * Labour Minister considers refusal to process low-wage stream if abuse persists * UN report suggests pathway to permanent residence to mitigate worker vulnerability By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO, - Canada's temporary foreign worker program is not fatally flawed but is "in need of reform," the country's immigration minister told Reuters on Tuesday, following a damning U.N. report that dubbed the program a breeding ground for modern slavery. The low-wage temporary foreign worker stream, especially, "is one that we need to take a more careful look at," Immigration Minister Marc Miller said. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery said in a report last week that Canada's "Temporary Foreign Worker Program serves as a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery." "The structural precarity for temporary foreign workers would be mitigated by systematically providing workers with a pathway to permanent residence," the report said.